Cycle 5 Academic Vocabulary

Definition: The intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium.

• Style

• Key Ideas

• Multimodal texts

• Audience

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The strategic integration of two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances.

• multimodal texts

• Authors purpose

• Context

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

To restate the meaning of something in different words.

• key ideas

• summarize

• paraphrase

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

To combine elements and parts to form a coherent whole

• Synthesize

• Organizational patterns

• Style

• Author's craft

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is the meaning of "Author's craft"?

• the type or class of a work, usually

  categorized by form, technique, or content

• intentional

  and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features,

  syntax, devices, and diction to create an effective written work: author’s

  craft may vary by genre

• to

  reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note:

  It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original

  source.

• the

  unique characteristics that describe a writer’s use of language; diction,

  syntax, sentence fluency, figurative language, and voice all contribute to a

  writer’s style

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Context is...

• the

  intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• the

  author’s particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing

• the

  pattern an author constructs as he organizes his or her ideas and provides

  supporting details

• the

  words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word,

  sentence, or passage

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Genre is....

• the type or class of a work, usually

  categorized by form, technique, or content

• to

  reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note:

  It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original

  source.

• important ideas throughout a work that

  support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

• the

  intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.).

• Audience

• Style

• Author’s

  purpose

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An electronic text read on a computer screen or other electronic device that may include images, sound, video, and other multimodal interactive and embedded elements.

• Key ideas

• Multimodal

  texts

• Digital text

• Style

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Summarize

• the

  unique characteristics that describe a writer’s use of language; diction,

  syntax, sentence fluency, figurative language, and voice all contribute to a

  writer’s style

• to

  reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note:

  It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original

  source.

• restate

  the meaning of something in different words. Paraphrasing alters the exact

  wording of the source and transmits its ideas or information without

  evaluation or interpretation.

• the

  unique characteristics that describe a writer’s use of language; diction,

  syntax, sentence fluency, figurative language, and voice all contribute to a

  writer’s style

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D